Bio
Tim Greene (born 1969) is a South African film and television director, actor and writer who won the SAFTA Golden Horn for Best Director: TV Drama in 2006 for the SABC3 newsroom drama, Hard Copy.
His first feature Boy Called Twist, the story of a Cape Town street kid, based on Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist, received a national theatrical release in 2005, and has screened in Cannes and at festivals around the world to critical acclaim.
Having cut his teeth as a commercials director for The Gatehouse, his television credits also include the ground-breaking series about love, sex and ballroom dancing, Tsha Tsha, and the police-drama series, Zero Tolerance.
His Zulu-language adaptation of King Lear Izingane Zobaba and his work on the high finance drama The LAB flighted on SABC1 and SABC3 respectively during 2008.
His first foray into documentary film making on the Who Do You Think You Are? series was selected for Encounters 2009.
He is the on-screen director of the SABC1 reality competition television series Class Act, since 2010.